CVE-2011-0447 describes a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Ruby on Rails versions 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x before 2.3.11, and 3.x before 3.0.4. The flaw stems from insufficient validation of HTTP requests containing an X-Requested-With header, enabling attackers to forge AJAX or API requests. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability is of medium severity, indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity that could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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